Great Decrease in the Consumption Death Rate.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7321, 23 September 1898, Page 4

Great Decrease in the Consumption Death Rate.

STRIKING FIGURES AT THEQUEEN VICTORIA HOME. The Hon. Dr MacLaurln, In seconding the adoption of the report and balancesheet at the annual meeting of the committee of the Queen Victoria Home for Consumptives Fund (says the Evening News, on June 28th), gave some interesting statistics with regard to tbe number of deaths in this colony, from that dread disease, consumption. He said that up to 10 years ago the number of deaths in N.S. W., from consumption had been Increasing considerably. In 1885 there were 1095 deaths due to this cause. For the years before 1885 consumption had been increasing much more rapidly than the population, while now, although the population has increased 50 per cent., the number of deaths was very much less. In 1885 there were 271 deaths of young children from consumption. The decrease in deaths , from this dls" order has attracted attention at home also. The Weekly Dispatch, of London, writing on the same matter, says that in 1853 the deaths from consumption in Great Britain were at a rate of 29 - 84- per thousand o! the population. In 1892 the number had fallen to 10 82 per thousand, or about one-third, and it has not risen since. Still, the insidious malady is far too prevalent, and he who can discover a cure for it will be hailed as a benefactor to the race. It has lately been alleged that a remedy has been found in quite an unexpected quarter, and a Weekly Dispatch Commissioner was deputed to make in-! quiry. " Is ifc a case that you have a new cure for consumption, and that people have already been restored to health by it T' ■ asked the Weekly Dispatch Commissioner, interviewing the head of a well-known establishment in London. " It is quite true that several persons discharged from various consumption hospitals have been cured lately, and that the face has been noticed a good deal in the Press," was the reply. " But" (with a smile) " there is nothing new about the remedy. It is Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The Dr Williams' Medicine Company has from time to time received intimations that consumptive people in all parts of the world have been cured by Dr Williams' Pink Pills. But we never made a feature of the cases in out advertising until lately, for the reason that we were afraid lesb there should be some mistake in the matter; and ib would be contrary to all our rules to recommend our Pills for any disorder unless we were absolutely sure that they had been proved suitable to it." 44 What do you mean by fearing some mistake 2" " Well," said the manager, " a mistake could arise in one or two ways. People might suppose that they had been AFFECTED BY CONSUMPTION, whereas they had suffered from some other cause, such as blood-spitting from injury to the throat or stomach ; or they might really have been consumptive, and, having got a little better, imagined themselves cured when they were not really so. But recently that is to say, within the last year or two —we have had under our observation cases in which consumption undoubtedly did exist, where the patients had been examined and certified as consumptive at various hospitals and in other official ways. Those people were led to use Dr Williams' Pink Pills, and, as a result, aftea a time they were proved to be cured. This led us to make the facts public, and they have been taken up and reported upon by a number of newspapers at our request. That is tbe whole story. You see there is nothing very striking about it."

" Not very ; it is simply an exceptional record of an honest hesitation successfully removed." " I don't know that there is anything exceptional about it, though it's very kind of you to say so. What has happened in the case of the disease consumption, or phthisis, is what has happened with a number of other diseases which are incurable by ordinary medicine, but which are cured, as published evidence shows, by Dr Williams' Pink Pills." " What diseases do yon refer to V "Ob, locomotor ataxy, and other forms of paralysis, for example ; spinal disease, cystitis 'a disorder of the bladder), some forms of anfeinia, and some disorders special to women. We were some years before we published our first case of locomotor ataxy, although we had reports of several cases cared in the interval. We wished to see if THB ' tTRE WAS PERMANENT, because the man had been paid death does amounting to over L2OO by an insurance company, on the certificate of medical specialists that he was absolutely incurable and could not live. This is Mr Marshall, and he is well and strong to day, thanks to Dr Williams' Pink Pills. "Another instance is Mr Robertson, a well-known Scottish football player. He sustained an injury with culminated in spinal disease, with a huge growth on the back. He was discharged from the Glasgow Infirmary Hospital as incurable, and went home to die. His mother spent over Ll5O trying to get him cured. He was cured in a very short time when he began to take Dr Williams' Pink Pills, and can play football as well as ever. He is a formidable chap in the field, I can tell you ! " Then there is the case of Mr George Bilton, who was paid his death dues by a Friendly Society—the Boiler Makers—as totally and permanently disabled by cystitis, or inflammatory catarrh of the bladder : certified as practically dead by three doctors. He was cured by Dr Williams' Pink Pills j we waited MORE THAN A TEAR before publishing his case in our book. He had lain paralysed for more than two years, and also suffered frightful agony from rheumatism, before he used the Pills ; bub our pills have made him a strong man without an ache in his - body, and he walks enormous distances. The same doctors who certified his discharge as incurable have certified him cured and fit for work, and the trade society actually re admitted him—an unique case." " The object of this is to show the permanency of the cures you effect." • "Excuse me ; it is Dr Williams' Pink Pills that effect the cures. We don't doctor people. We will nob even examine or see them at our office, But if we are written to (and we are always pleased to have sick people write to us as fully as possible), we will tell them frankly whether cases like theirs have been cured by Dr Williams' Pills or not. If we do nob think the Pills suitable, we say so, because of business is built up entirely by the recommendation .of people who have used our Pills and found; benefit from them. We have such a large trade that, really, the sale of a box more, or a hundred boxes more, is .nob to be compared in importance with the record which we hold for fair and Candid dealings. We do nob fear any investigation; and that is how it is we have so many good friends among EDUCATED PEOPLE AND THE CLERGY, who know we deal honestly with the. public. Aa an example, Dr Williams' Pink Pills cured of spinal disease a girl of j Glasgow. Hei name is Miss Bell,. and I she was [ actually visited by a clergyman, in order to prepare her for death. When she was :cured, more than three years agoj the? clergyman wrote to us about it, and he is kind enough to write to us from time to time, telling us how the girl-is getting on. His name is the Rev. Ing t of 7 Firbank Terrace, Dennis.toup, Glasgow'. girl 'is, and remains, petfectJy weli iand stroiig. " , *' But,"—with ' another quiet smile—- " I fancy we are getting rather far away

from the subject of consumption, and my time is rather limited.' 1 " Well, about consumption- then. 1 I > always- supposed that consumption was i absolutely fatal." .r : ' o | "Soitls If 16 gets to-the final stage, | though we have been told by people even far advanced in consumption"; that they have pulled up strength wonderfully by using Dr Williams' Pink Pills. But In some stages, even when specialists and hospitals can only offer ; palliative treatment, and try to delay the inevltableV J we have good evidence that Dr Williams' Pink Pills have actually effected cures." The manager cited the following,, among other cases : "Mr F. Joyce, of 5 Brown ? s Buildings, West Pottergate street, Norwich, raised phlegm every morning.which was streaked with blood ; his face was blanched, and he lost weight His breathing was short and painful, and Mr Joyce's apprehensions were increased by the fact that HIS FATHER HAD DIED OF CONSUMPTION. He went to two doctors. Theu one morning, to use his. own words, 4 1 looked in the Norwich Eastern Daily Press, and there I saw a case of a consumptive young man who had been spitting up blood like myself, and having night sweats, who was cured and restored to robust health ard strength by Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, I procured a box of these pills myself, and followed the directions. After taking the contents of three boxes I felt as well as ever I did in my life.' Bub while feeling so well, Mr Joyce still had an uncomfortable impression that he was in consumption, so he submitted himself to an examination at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. THE DOCTOR t OF THAT QBE AT INSTITOTION declared him to be in a sound state of health, and refused to supply him with any medicine or enter him upon the books, as he Had- no need of treatment." Dr Williams' Pink Pills are nob like other medicine, nor can they be imitated as is sometimes honestly pretended ; take care that the package bears the full name, printed in red on the white outside wrapper ; otherwise you are being cheated by a worthless imitation ; in case of doubt send direct to Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., as the pills can be had, post free, at 3s per box, or Bix boxes for 16s 6d.